It was the week of Consecration in the mission. We were completely consecrated! Didn´t even sing any songs around the piso that weren´t hymns! haha. This month in the mission has been month of the Savior. We have been working all month on Christlike Attributes and ended the month with the week of Consecration.
We were tested all week. It was a really hard week. We had really big goals to find new investigators and set baptismal dates as well. So Elder Adcock and I were trying hard to do that all week long and the first few days were really rough. We couldn´t get in to almost anything and I had to go do exchanges twice and leave Elder Adcock in our area.
Every single Attribute of Christ was tested this week. It was amazing because every night I would kneel down to pray and the Lord showed me what He did during the day to help me learn those attributes: Faith, Diligence, Hope, Patience, Charity, Obedience, Virtue, Humility, and Knowledge. I saw every day how He helped me learn and how He tested me with each one.
As the week went on we could feel our faith getting stronger and we were working harder and being more patient, HUGE miracles started happening. We were guided to prepared people and they were guided to us. We even had a girl walk up to us in the street and give us her number and her address because, she said, ¨I´m looking for something. I want to join your church.¨ We found an amazing family from Ukraine that we were miraculously guided to. Miracle after miracle kept happening. We were so blessed.
And to end it all, we baptized yesterday. A young man named Kevin that we have been working with since I´ve been here. We had a lesson with him on Wednesday and we felt like we just needed to go over the baptismal questions. He knew and understood them all. We said ¨Can´t you see how ready you are?¨ and he told us that he was ready, and that he wanted to be baptized on Sunday. It was the most amazing feeling! We worked hard the rest of the week to get his interview done and everything ready, all while continuing to find to reach the high goals that we had set as a mission.
His baptism yesterday was the most amazing moment ever. Elder Adcock, me, Kevin, his brother, and his 2 best friends in the church were all sitting on the front row and those guys were all just crying the whole time. The talk and the testimonies were PERFECT and the best part of all was that when it was all over, everyone stood up so reverently and got in a line to give him a hug. Everyone was crying. He has so many friends in the church and it was such a special day for so many people.
I got home last night and sat down and felt like I had served a whole mission in just one week :). With all the things I learned, miracles I saw, and energy I didn´t have haha :). I think that´s almost what it feels like when you end the mission. So tired, and happy, and accomplished, and humble.
A week that I will never forget, and one that has changed my mission and my life. I will write down ALL the details in my journal so that I don´t ever forget it :).
Love all you guys! :) I don´t have a lot of time today, otherwise I would write more. :) Have a great week!
Elder Marchant
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